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Nationalism and Gender
UENO Chizuko

This is written by a sociologist and Japan's "most famous feminist", Chizuko Ueno. A discursive...

Hegemony of Homogeneity
BEFU Harumi
Much of the misunderstanding by foreigners about Japan arises out of their acceptance of certain...
A Genealogy of 'Japanese' Self-images
OGUMA Eiji
This book presents a counter-argument to the Japanese belief that they are a homogeneous nation...
Boundaries of 'the Japanese' Vol.1
OGUMA Eiji

The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion have operated for centuries in the island chain that...

A History of Modern Chemistry
HIROTA Noboru

Noboru Hirota has produced a major historical analysis of how the field of chemistry has...

Living on the Streets in Japan
FILLER Stephen, MARUYAMA Satomi

Homelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the...

Cultural Politics around East Asian Cinema 1939-2018
SUDO Noriko, TANIKAWA Takeshi
This book examines the interdependent relationships between the film industry and the state in East...
U.S. Occupation of Okinawa
YOSHIMOTO Hideko

Throughout twenty-seven years of military occupation, US public affairs activities aimed to persuade the local...

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  • TSUNAMI
    $32.95
    TSUNAMI

    TOBA Futoshi, MILLER Amya

    In 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake left m...
    In 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake left more than 20,000 people dead or missing. On 11 March 2011, shortly after taking office as mayor, Futoshi Toba, mayor of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefectu...
  • Anthropology of Ba
    $35.95
    Anthropology of Ba

    KAJIMARU Gaku, Caitlin Coker, KAZAMA Kazuhiro

    Do places influence human behavior? In everyday...
    Do places influence human behavior? In everyday thinking, spaces and places are generally seen as empty vessels where human activity occurs. Digging a bit deeper, we can distinguish spaces from pla...
  • Japan's Ultra-Right Japan's Ultra-Right
    $39.95
    Japan's Ultra-Right

    HIGUCHI Naoto

    This book is a comprehensive account of the nat...
    This book is a comprehensive account of the nativist movement in Japan today. Naoto Higuchi uses the life histories of activists to establish that the basis of their support for the movement is the...
  • Nationalism and Gender Nationalism and Gender
    $29.95
    Nationalism and Gender

    UENO Chizuko

    This is written by a sociologist and Japan's "m...
    This is written by a sociologist and Japan's "most famous feminist", Chizuko Ueno. A discursive battle over how Japan's history should be remembered constitutes the most recent, and perhaps the mos...
  • From Salvation to Spirituality From Salvation to Spirituality
    $34.95
    From Salvation to Spirituality

    SHIMAZONO Susumu

    Susumu Shimazono, one of Japan's foremost socio...
    Susumu Shimazono, one of Japan's foremost sociologists of religion, deals with the development of popular religious and spiritual movements in Japan in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. A...
  • The System of Japanese Society
    $32.11
    The System of Japanese Society

    OGUMA Eiji

    In developed countries, non-regular employment ...
    In developed countries, non-regular employment in the labor market is increasing and the gap between rich and poor is widening. Gender inequality in employment is also often an issue. Japan is no e...
  • Foreigners' Rights in Japan
    $34.95
    Foreigners' Rights in Japan

    TANNO Kiyoto

    Do foreigners really have ‘human rights’ in Jap...
    Do foreigners really have ‘human rights’ in Japan? This book sheds light on the way Japan views foreigners by examining court cases initiated in the wake of the issuance of deportation orders.‘Spec...
  • The Stripper Goddess of Japan
    $29.95
    The Stripper Goddess of Japan

    TSURUMI Shunsuke, AOYAMA Tomoko, BAILEY Penny

    The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Aft...
    The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame no Uzume is the first complete English translation of Ame no Uzume den (1991) by one of Japan's most influential post-war intellectuals...
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    Utagawa Hiroshige
    $79.95
    Utagawa Hiroshige

    ABE Mika

    In the late Edo period, when society was maturi...
    In the late Edo period, when society was maturing and Japan was moving to open its doors to the outside world, landscapes were undergoing major changes. Many world-famous ukiyo-e painters were acti...
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    A History of the Pachinko Industry
    $49.95
    A History of the Pachinko Industry

    HAN Jaehyang

    Pachinko parlors offer a form of gambling uniqu...
    Pachinko parlors offer a form of gambling unique to Japan located near train stations, in the suburbs and in other everyday living spaces. Before World War II, pachinko was born as a game for both ...
  • Gender History in China
    $69.95
    Gender History in China

    KOHAMA Masako, Linda Grove

    How have femininity and masculinity been define...
    How have femininity and masculinity been defined and understood in China from prehistoric times to the present day? Gender History in China presents for the first time in English the work of leadi...
  • Gender Gymnastics Gender Gymnastics
    $34.95
    Gender Gymnastics

    STICKLAND Leonie

    The artifice of gender performance - sometimes ...
    The artifice of gender performance - sometimes playful, mostly conscientious - has enthralled and entertained audiences of Japan's all-female Takarazuka Revue for more than 90 years. The dashing ma...